A TREATISE 



ioulc,mutt needs be the Iclfc lame as in the others ; (eeing chat a 

 feparatedfoulcs aftivity,is upon ail place in an mdivifiblc of time . 

 Therefore to (hucc up iris point; theie rcmaincth only for 

 us to confidcr,what addition may be made unto the efficacity 

 of .a judgement^/ the concurrence of other extrinf ; call helps. 

 Vfc f ec that vfhen an underllanding man will i'cttle any judge- 

 IIH nt.or eonclufion in his mind.e,he weigheth throughly all that 

 follovreth out of fuch a j adgement;and-confidereth like wife all 

 the antecedents that lead him unto it:and if after, due reflection, 

 and examination, of what&evcr concerneih this conclufion 

 which he is eitablifhing in his mind , hefindcth nothing to. 

 crofle it, but thai every particular and circumftance goeth 

 frnoothiy along withit^and (trengtbenethit;heis, then fa 

 tisfied, and quiet in his thoughts , and yeeldeth a fuU affenc 

 thereunto: which aflTcnt is the ftrocger 3 by how many the 

 more concurrent teftimonyes he hath for it. And although 

 he fhould have aperfe& demondraron or fi^ht of the thi-nj; 

 in it felfc.yet every one fche.otfaer extrinlecall proofcs.,be- 

 ing as it were a new perfwaiion^hath in it a further vigour to 

 ttren^then and content his mind in the forehad demonftra* 

 tion ; fo^if every one of thefe be in it felfe Sufficient to make 

 chething evident ; it can not happen that any one of them, 

 fbould hinder the o;hers : but contrariwife^every one of them 

 muft needs corcurre with all the re/1, to the eftecluall quie- 

 ting ofhis underfianding , in its aflent, to that judgement.. 

 No AT then.according to tbis rate,Jet us calculate, (if we can) 

 what concurrence of proofs and wirneflfes a feparated ibule 

 will have to feitle and tfrengthen her in every one of her 

 judgements. We know, that all verities are chained and con- 

 nected one to another; aod that there is no true conclufion 

 fo far remote from any other, but may by more,or Jeffs cor- 

 lequences and di/couries , be deduced evidently out of it .- it 

 folloAr.eth then that in the abftracled ibule, where all fuch 

 cpniequences are ready drawne, and /cene in them/elves 

 without extemionjoftimeor employing of painesco collefl 

 the,m;every panjicular verity,bearerh tefh'mcny to any othe?, 

 fothac every oneofthemis beleeved,andworketh in the 

 fenceand venue ofaJI. Out of which it ism2nifeft,that every 

 JH Cement in fuch a /eparated fbute, hath an fnfinit ftrength 

 andefFccaciry over any^made b^ an embodyedoac. To 



